South Asia in 1519
1519 is the year Charles V became Holy Roman Emperor. This map shows the 31 states and peoples the data has for South Asia in that year.
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States and peoples in South Asia in 1519
Largest first, by area on this map.
- Tibet
- Safavid Dynasty
- Vijayanagara Empire
- Eastern Moghulistan
- Sultanate of Bengal
- Lodi Dynasty
- Timurid Empire
- Shan States
- Kashmiri Sultanate
- Mongol Khanate
- Sind-Samma Dynasty
- Ava Kingdom
- Bijapur Sultanate
- Kingdom of Mrauk U
- Berar Sultanate
- Ahmadnagar Sultanate
- Khanate of Bukhara
- Hanthawaddy Kingdom
- First Toungoo Empire
- Golconda Sultanate
- Portuguese Ceylon
- Bidar Sultanate
- Prome Kingdom
- Portuguese Empire
- Jaffna kingdom
- Samudera Pasai Sultanate
- Ming Dynasty
- Lan Na Kingdom
- Sultanate of Aceh
- Ayutthaya Kingdom
- Kathmandu
New on the map since 1494
Safavid Dynasty · Eastern Moghulistan · Khanate of Bukhara · First Toungoo Empire · Golconda Sultanate · Portuguese Ceylon · Portuguese Empire · Sultanate of Aceh
Gone from the map by 1544
Sultanate of Bengal · Lodi Dynasty · Timurid Empire · Sind-Samma Dynasty · Ava Kingdom · Samudera Pasai Sultanate
Animated maps of this time
South Asia in other years
Other regions in 1519
The outlines are coarse and follow the Cliopatria dataset: borders before modern surveys are estimates, and a blank area means the data has no state on record there, not that nobody lived there. A state that changed hands during the year can appear together with its successor.